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PSYCHOTHERAPY
helping people live lives they love
Dr. White helps clients live lives they love.
Do you want more joy and peace in your life?
By learning to manage stress, set boundaries, and align your life with what matters to you, you can create more joy and peace every day.
Do you want a practitioner with lived experience of mental health struggles?
Inspired by her own mental wellness journey of recovery and resilience, Ruth is a Toronto-based registered social worker who provides culturally-aligned psychotherapy for residents of Ontario & Alberta.
Are you seeking a therapist who considers all of you?
Dr. White takes a holistic approach - mind, body and spirit - through the lens of each client’s unique social, economic, cultural, and faith context. Therapy approaches include: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, humanistic, positive psychology, narrative therapy, and mindfulness.
Feeling overwhelmed, stressed or burnt out? Experiencing compassion fatigue as a helping professional such as a social worker, nurse, doctor, or caregiver?
Dr. White specializes in helping you create boundaries that keep you doing what you love, while protecting your peace. Dr. White writes a Substack newsletter where she discusses science-backed stress relief, burnout prevention, and workplace wellbeing insights.
Diagnosed with AD(H)D or bipolar disorder?
Ruth has decades-long lived experience of thriving with these diagnoses. This gives her a unique perspective, deep empathy and understanding of these struggles, with practical insight into strategies that work.
Struggling with issues related to identity, such as gender, sexuality, or race/ethnicity/culture, including inter-cultural & inter-generational issues?
Dr. White provides guides your healing through trauma, and helps you build confidence and self-esteem, and learn communication skills that help you connect in healthy ways with family, friends and colleagues.
Are you a woman dealing with the mental health impacts of infertility, pregnancy, or the post-partum period? Trying to thrive through perimenopause and menopause?
Dr. White has a Masters in Public Health in Maternal and Child Health, was trained as a doula in 1993, and she has lived experience of post-partum depression. She is committed to guiding women gently through the challenges that are uniquely ours, combining what you already know, the wisdom of women that came before, and the science of what we know now.
Are you navigating challenging relationships, work-life stress, reproductive health issues, menopause, or caregiving responsibilities?
Dr. White helps you prioritize your needs and well being, while helping you maintain healthy relationships.
Is academia pushing you to your limit?
Dr. White will guide and support you to tenure or graduation without surrendering your identity, values or wellbeing. She got through demanding academic programs, was awareded tenure, and has taught at schools ranging from UC-Berkeley, University of Toronto, University of Southern California, and more.
Does Dr. White provide consultations?
YES she does! Reach out for a FREE 15-minute consultation.